New York Is Pushed to Stop Asking Aspiring Lawyers About Long-Ago Crimes
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- Publish Date:
- September 6, 2022
- Author(s):
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- Closson, Troy
- Source:
- The New York Times
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Summary
The character and fitness evaluation has long been central to the profession, but its use has shifted over the years.
The earliest iterations were often used to block women from the profession. And a century ago, “nativist and ethnic prejudices” shaped the evaluation, according to a journal article by Deborah Rhode, a Stanford Law School professor and expert on legal ethics who died in 2021.
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